Introduction

Installing

Unzip it to your IDEA_INSTALL/plugins/ folder so that it looks like
IDEA_INSTALL/plugins/backport175/lib/*.jar

You ll have to wait the next version of IDEA for the Plugin Manager to work.

Features

Once installed the plugin allow to add the backport175 compiler to your module. Select your module within your IDEA project, and select the Build > Enable Backport175 in the menu to activate backport175 to this module only.

Activation is persisted in your iws file.

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When you will build, the annotation will be compiled into the compiled class file just a the Java 5 compiler would do with Java 5 annoations.

Errors (like bad annotation syntax) are reported as compilation errors and will appear in the "Problem" view.
You will have to fix them or IDEA cannot build succesfully your project.

Errors location are marked with a red @ icon.
Successfully compiled are marked with a green @ icon.
Ignored annotation (f.e. regular JavaDoc) are not marked at all.